Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 1.9 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 54.12% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (12.2 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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